The brother of a Dalit migrant worker from Chhattisgarh who was lynched by BJP–RSS members in Kerala’s Palakkad has appealed to the Indian government to ban such Sangh Parivar organisations, which he said “consider themselves nationalist and religious while killing people in the name of caste and religion.”
In a video message, Shashikant Baghel, the brother of Ram Narayan Baghel, introduced himself as a resident of Karhi in Chhattisgarh and said his brother was brutally beaten to death on December 17 by alleged Sangh Parivar goons.
“The Sangh Parivar calls itself patriotic, but what kind of patriotism is this, beating their own people by branding them as Bangladeshis and still claiming to be nationalists?,” he asked.
He said that he had appealed to the Kerala government for justice and staged protests with the support of various organisations, saying, “With their help, I fought with the Kerala government for justice for my brother.”
Earlier, Kerala’s political parties condemned the lynching, describing him as a “victim of the Sangh Parivar’s hate politics” and warning that mob lynchings, once associated with Sangh Parivar strongholds in North India, occurring in Kerala as well marked a shocking reality and a clear manifestation of a poisonous, racist ideology.
Police have arrested five people, including four BJP workers, in connection with the case.
Those arrested are Ananthan (55) of East Attappallam; BJP–RSS workers A Anu (38) of Attappallam Kallankadu, C Prasad (34) and C Murali (38) of Attappallam Mahallikadu; and K Bibin (30) of East Attappallam.
Meanwhile, the Kerala government announced a minimum compensation of ₹10 lakh for the family of Ram Narayan, who had arrived in Palakkad just four days earlier in search of work and was staying with a relative near Attappallam under Walayar police limits when he lost his way and got stranded in the village.
The post-mortem report confirmed that the cause of death was severe head injury.
As the family initially refused to claim the body, Revenue Minister K Rajan held discussions with them and assured compensation of “not less than ₹10 lakh.”
The Chief Secretary was tasked with implementing the Tehseen S. Poonawalla guidelines, Section 132 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was added to the case, and ₹10 lakh was sanctioned from the Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund.
Ram Narayan is survived by his wife, two young children, and his mother.
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